A Floppy disk is hardware. As a quick rule of thumb, any component, not only computing, that can physically exist without the need to take any special course of action for its generation, is Hardware. for instance, your computer and the floppy are hardware, but the data that resides inside your computer, or floppy, is software, since it has no physical existence of its own and can only be interacted with by accessing it through a suitable device like your computer.
Hardware.
Hardware.
A "diskette" or "floppy disk" is neither as they are removable magnetic storage media. However, if you refer to the drives that read from them or write to them, then those drives are considered hardware.
A Disk on Key is hardware.
NO it is hardware because it is physically there. Software is programs, files, ect
A "diskette" or "floppy disk" is neither as they are removable magnetic storage media. However, if you refer to the drives that read from them or write to them, then those drives are considered hardware.
A "diskette" or "floppy disk" is neither as they are removable magnetic storage media. However, if you refer to the drives that read from them or write to them, then those drives are considered hardware.
It is hardware unless it is a virtual disk in which case it is software implemented on hardware.
The disk is hardware, but information ON the disk is software. Rule of thumb is if you can touch it with your fingers, it is hardware. You can touch the disk, but you cannot touch files or programs.
A piece of hardware to read and write floppy disks.
The computer's hard disk is hardware.
It is hardware. However, it is possible to create in software a "virtual" hard disk and this would be software.
Hardware